Ellen was born in the year 1826. Ellen was the daughter of an African American woman and her white slave owner. Ellen was born into slavery in Clinton, Georgia. Some of her words were, "I had much rather starve in England, a free woman, than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent." A few years later, she moved with another owner to Macon. When she was older, she married William Craft, also a slave. Ellen had to find a way to get out of slavery along with William. She would pretend to be William's owner and William would be the slave! They traveled by train to Philadelphia. They moved on to Boston. Their slave owners followed them and tried to get them back until they went to England. Ellen and her husband came back to the United States after the Civil War. They helped set up a farm where former slaves shared the land and the things they grew and a school for the children of those slaves. She died in the year 1891and is remembered for her hard work in trying to make a better life for her people.

2000, by Silena, third grade